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    The OTBO Newsletter-"The Ohio Thoroughbred Connection" will now be sent
electronically to the membership. If you did not receive the Spring 2008 issue, please send
your e-mail address to gb.otbo@fuse.net.

                                       CHANGES to the 2008 Ohio Thoroughbred Fund Program
              can be found be clicking the News Heading/Ohio Program.
                 Date changes & Increased supplements highlighted red.

   Karole Germany & Shirley Girten
Thistledown's Terapeutic for Trainer
by D'Arcy Egan  Cleveland Plain Dealer   



Deborah Kopatz of Fox Chapel Farm, breeder of Horse of
the Year & Special Recognition Colt, King of the Roxy
has been voted Ohio State Breeder to be honored by
TOBA  at their dinner in September.    
Ron McKay, Dr. D.W. Frazier & Betty Alexander
were selected as nominees for Regional Owners
of the Year. 


At the April  24, 2008 Ohio State Racing Commission Meeting,
     Chairman Charlie Luken announced his resignation at the end of month
Charlie Luken was originally appointed to the Commission on October 8, 2005. He was
appointed chairman by Governor Ted Strickland on April 12, 2007. His term ends on
March 31, 2009. A graduate of Notre Dame University and the University of Cincinnati
College of Law, Luken twice served as mayor of Cincinnati and was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives. As mayor, Luken was instrumental in the first Convention
Center expansion and the completion of the Bicentennial Park on Cincinnati’s riverfront.

 OTBO BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION RESULTS               
        Elected to the Board
 Terrence Blair,  Richard Coreno,
 Dr. James Gabel, Dr. Paul Gutheil,
David Inglis     OTBO Officers: Tim Hamm (President), David Inglis (Vice Pres.) Dennis Heebink (Treasurer) &  Gary Aiken (Secretary) 

  

PO Box 30320,Gahanna,Oh 43230 
614-598-4910   e-mail: oeic@ohioequineindustry.org
send donations to the above address
(OTBO HBPA OHHA  OQHA  OHC)
 
    
Articles:
Thistledown's Terapeutic for Trainer
 by D'Arcy Egan  Plain Dealer Reporter   04.30.08

Golden Glen Farm      
                                                                                                                             
 Representative Chris Widener, (R-Springfield) visited
  Tom & Judy McCann's Golden Glen Farm in Xenia
  Township, just south of Yellow Springs to discuss the
  state of the industry & view the workings of a typical
  horse farm.  (October 2007)
     

Rep. Chris Widener (R-Springfield) Tom McCann 
& trainer, Laura Schmidt       

                             
    
 

OTBO & HBPA & OHHA   Legislative Day     05.15.07     
   
For the first time, the three horsemen groups joined
& converged on the State House to meet & greet Legislators. 
Armed with statistics, the horsemen discussed  the
economic impact  & decline of our industry.  
Forty-seven horsemen met with forty-nine Legislators.
    All observed demonstrations of an Instant Racing
machine & encouraged Legislators to vote yes on the pending bills in the House & Senate that the three horsemen groups support. 
 
OTBO President, Betty Alexander, OHHA Executive Director, Jerry Knappenberger, Representative Matt Dolan & HBPA Executive Director,
Dave Basler present Dolan with Legislator of the Year Award for his sponsorship of the Thoroughbred Fund "Cleanup" Bill.
 click here to view picture page of this event
                                        
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